Sociology 3380: Urban Inequality: Selected Data Sources for Urban Areas

A highly useful compendium of statistical information. Check the table source notes for additional information.

"This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000)."

Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983

A portal to datasets from participating cities as well as the federal government, by subject. Available data will vary widely among municipalities.

Clues about who might be collecting data on various topics. This is a little bit hit-and-miss and you won't necessarily find reports for your city, however, the list provides some clues about what may have been collected and by whom (agency or interagency projects). Search tip: After selecting a topic area, click on the Publications link at the top of the screen to find published reports (sometimes including relevant data).

A comprehensive Census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in adulthood using data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. Estimates children’s outcomes in adulthood such as earnings distributions and incarceration rates by parental income, race, and gender.

Browse by topic.

You may be able to find some useful data here. A number of these reports are surveys across cities on various topics.

Easy access to tabulated data - various topics, various years of coverage.